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The first name Chastity

A girl’s name.

3 syllables Female

Meaning and origin

A female given name from English from the virtue chastity.

From Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Popularity in the United States

Babies named Chastity at birth, 1880–2025

In 2023, 9 girls born in the United States were named Chastity, the 10,493rd most popular girls’ name that year. It was used most in 1974, when 749 were.

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9,711
babies named Chastity since 1880
#10,493
rank in 2023
1974
peak year

US Social Security Administration, from applications for a Social Security card. A name is only published for a year when at least five babies were given it, so quieter years show as zero.

Famous people named Chastity

1 on Wikidata, most written-about first

  • Chastity Lynn
    American pornographic actress, born 1987

Questions

Is Chastity a boy's or a girl's name?
Mostly a girl's name: 100% of the 9,711 US babies named Chastity since 1880 were girls.
When was Chastity most popular?
1974 in the United States, when 749 babies were named Chastity, its highest rank at 311th.